ANAHEIM The Angels do have a frightening collection of hitting talent, and they looked every bit the part for a week, but eventually the American League West has a way of grinding bats into toothpicks.

Perhaps the best pitcher on the division’s best-pitching team made that perfectly clear Friday night.

Tim Hudson outdueled Bartolo Colon, and the Oakland A’s beat the Angels, 3-0, at Angel Stadium. In a clash of baseball styles, the A’s ways prevailed Friday. Hudson and two relievers struck out 10 Angels, and the game whisked by in 2 hours, 32 minutes.

Before crossing out the “A-Team” references and replacing them with “K-Team” on area billboards, though, consider this: A little more run support, a few less blown saves and Hudson might have been the Cy Young winner a year ago.

“When a guy like Hudson is on his game, you just try to make him work. There are going to be some counts where you strike out,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “Overall, our team does a terrific job putting the ball in play. Maybe we were a little overaggressive at times.”

Hudson was so dominant Friday, one of the friskier lineups in the league didn’t get a whiff of a rally for seven innings. The A’s didn’t do much rallying either. Three Oakland hitters — including league-leader Jermaine Dye — connected for solo home runs.

The more frustrating part for the Angels was watching their hitters go down swinging against the far less-touted Oakland bullpen. With the bases loaded in the eighth inning, Darin Erstad struck out on three pitches from Ricardo Rincon and Vladimir Guerrero went down flailing at a Jim Mecir screwball.

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